ISBN 9780749398576

ISBN-10

0749398574

Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages

400 Pages

Language

(English)

Subject

Fiction

While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive ? whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment.nnBut for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private daemons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicentre of all heresies.Heresies that must be challenged with a horrifying new inquisition destined to climax in a spectacular confrontation?
About the Author
Louis de Berni?res is the best-selling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book in 1995. His most recent novel is A Partisan?s Daughter
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Mr de Berni?res writes superbly,A carnival of pain and pleasure, violence, tenderness, high jinks of every sexual sort, quaint customs and quainter jokes,An extraordinary feat of imagination? a sensuous, often farcical and ultimately optimistic argument for spiritual sanity